Christmas Cook-a-thon

This year we decided to bake cookies to pass out at my work and bring to The Cantor's as treats for everyone. Let me just say... it was A LOT more work then we thought it would be. What we thought would be a one day thing turned out to be a three day cook-a-thon, but it was fun and they turned out so cute!

On Tuesday we started to make the cookies. Ed did the manly things like rolling out the dough for the sugar cookies and checking the basketball scores in between, while I balled up all the chocolate chip cookies and peanut butter blossoms and prepared them for the oven. Then, on Wednesday I frosted and decorated all the snowmen cookies with Ed's help on the regular sugar cookies.

Pearl helped out, too:

These are ALL the cookies we made:

Snowmen With Earmuffs:

(idea from Courtney)

Chocolate Chip Cookies With Walnuts:

Peanut Butter Blossoms:

The baking/cooking continued well into Thursday as well... now that the frosting was dried, I packaged the cookies onto Christmas plates and made everyone name tags. Once that was done we were on to the P's - Pumpkin Pies and Pierogies!

Once again, Ed stuck to the manly chore of rolling out the homemade pie crust:

I was in charge making the pie filling and filling:

The Finished Products:

After we were done with the homemade pumpkin pies we started making my Grandma Sophie's homemade pierogies because Christmas Eve just wouldn't be the same without them. Homemade pierogies are tradition in my family and I've been making them ever since I've moved to Las Vegas. Each year they seem to get easier, but it sure is nice to have Eddie there to help me roll out the dough while I stuff the pierogie with the mashed potatoes and cheese.

We ended up getting 45 pierogies:

We finally finished after 11 pm and needless to say we were EXHAUSTED.

(Pearl too!)

Hope everyone enjoyed the goodies! :)